Anthony Housefather at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 4th, 2022. See this statement in context.

February 4th, 2022 / 1:55 p.m.

Liberal

Anthony Housefather Liberal Mount Royal, QC

I appreciate that, because there are people claiming that there's been this drastic escalation of costs. From your testimony—from what I understand, anyway—we're not comparing apples to apples when we're looking at the 2008 or the 2013 estimates, because in both cases we don't know that those estimated costs were ever independently validated, and we have no idea to what extent the specifications that were used to create those estimates are different from the specifications that you used in 2021.

Would that be a relatively fair statement?

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